mechanism
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A spokesperson said: "In essence, we are strongly supportive of the goals of the scheme and of the underpinning principles of better bus travel. Our concern is around the mechanism proposed to achieve this."
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
They developed a pump mechanism and gravity-free tank that works no matter what angle the brush is held at to control the flow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
"We really need a dedicated mechanism... which works around the clock," disaster specialist Saswata Sanyal told AFP.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
Home ownership also usually comes with mortgage payments that create a forced-saving mechanism, gradually building equity in the home.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
Leonardo’s sketch is already implicitly drawn to scale, with a detail of the ratchet mechanism shown at a higher level of magnification.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Although the two studies focused on very different mechanisms, they point toward the same broader idea.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
“Songs and tunes, unmoored from formal commercial and legal mechanisms, give succeeding singers and players the freedom to reshape those pieces,” Mr. Wade writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Sundararajan says the designation should bring faster clearances, emergency repair mechanisms and an Indian cable-repair capability, along with legally protected cable zones around landing sites and routes, restricting anchoring and trawling.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Khanal said the disaster underlined the "impetus and urgency" needed to build data-sharing mechanisms to help warn of future disasters, noting that neighbouring China had shared key data after the flood.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
In real life, the biomedical sciences have not yet reached the stage of any kind of general applicability to disease mechanisms.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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Power Suffix: -ism
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